Chapter 21: Silage

"Back to Your Majesty, it's already working." A eunuch said.

Zhu Qizhen raised his eyebrows and said, "Oh, go take a look." ”

The silage technology is simple and simple, and it is said that the ancient Egyptians had already invented this technology in BC. Even in ancient Chinese agricultural books, there are quite a few records of similar principles.

However, it was used on a large scale in China during the War of Resistance Against Japanese Aggression.

What is the benefit of silage, so that Zhu Qizhen thinks about it, and regards him as the two great divine weapons to rule the grassland together with wool weaving, which is better than 100,000 male divisions.

Silage is a magical technology, but it is actually a technique of fermenting and storing forage.

It is possible to store pasture grass on the grassland in the summer and feed the livestock in the winter. And the fermented forage feed will be more nutritious.

It doesn't seem to be a magical technology, but in Zhu Qizhen's view, it's a strategic-level technology.

In the grasslands, the tribes lived in pursuit of water and grass, moving according to the seasons, forming a nomadic route, but with this technology, the tribes were able to store pasture in the summer and eat it in the winter.

In other words, it is possible to settle in the grasslands.

The nomadic of nomads is not that they like this kind of wandering life, but that they have no other way.

All customs are based on the development of the productive forces.

Every winter, the nomadic tribes do not know how many animals starve to death, and even people starve to death, and every winter is a difficult hurdle for the Mongolian tribes.

Once this technology is in place, the productivity of the grassland will be greatly increased, and even the carrying capacity of the grassland population will be greatly increased.

For Zhu Qizhen, this is a good thing.

Such basic technology is difficult to keep secret.

But for Zhu Qizhen, he would rather deal with a Mongol Empire that has greatly developed because of silage technology, than face the thorns that are now composed of nomadic tribes.

The reason is simple.

Once the nomadic tribes discovered the benefits of settling, it was impossible to migrate easily.

Then their central city is in Siberia, and there is only one decisive place, if Emperor Taizong is still there, he can definitely break through this place.

Even if Zhu Qizhen exhausts the world's financial resources, he can also achieve a key decisive victory.

Instead of being full of steppes and doing hide with the Mongols.

Not to mention, the Mongol tribes had the ability to settle, and the Ming court could build several heroic cities on the grassland and control the grassland. That is, it became possible to lie in the north of the county.

Sometimes, the progress of productivity has led to the loss of certain strategic advantages.

With this technology, Zhu Qizhen is no longer like Han Zhi to the Xiongnu.

Tang Zhi turned against the Turks, but a new strategic model was opened.

Several eunuchs took Zhu Qizhen to a large mound of earth in a few steps, and asked a few eunuchs to step forward and peel off the layers of soil on it, revealing the forage inside.

The eunuch next to him introduced: "This is the alfalfa collected last autumn, and now it is still green, and it has been eaten by the livestock, and the animals also like to eat it." ”

Zhu Qizhen smelled a smell that he didn't know how to describe, everything that didn't smell good, but thinking about the strategic significance of this technology, he ignored this smell at all, and stepped forward a few steps, reached out to grab the silage, and his hands were covered with inexplicable liquid.

Speaking of this technology, it is not too black technology.

It's just that it's closed, isolated from oxygen, and kept at a certain humidity to allow anaerobic bacteria to ferment, but it's easier said than done, and it's been a lot of experiments.

Dozens of cellars are closed every winter. So far, it's finally a success.

Zhu Qizhen laughed and said, "Fan Hong, reward." ”

Fan Hong said: "Yes." ”

Zhu Qizhen will not pay attention to how these eunuchs are rewarded, but with Zhu Qizhen's words, the benefits of the eunuchs below are indispensable, Zhu Qizhen is not satisfied, and said: "That he is in charge of Nanhaizi." In the future, the war horses will be fed with this, and I will check it. ”

"Thank you, Your Majesty, thank you, Your Majesty."

Nanhaizi is a horse farm near Beijing, or a royal horse farm, there is a small herd of horses, about a few hundred, but they are free-range, not captive.

Therefore, the war horses here are all first-class and good, and the so-called royal horses are also.

Zhu Qizhen said to Fan Hong again: "If Nanhaizi is feasible, then all the war horses of the Imperial Horse Supervisor will try to use this method." And then step by step, it is rolled out. ”

Immediately, Zhu Qizhen thought of Lanzhou Woolen Mill, which is also the largest industry in Shaofu in the northwest

Generally speaking, Shaofu's industries are distributed in Gyeonggi, and the Gangnam area, and the mines may be found in each province because of the location of the mines.

But the largest industry in the northwest is the woolen mill in Lan County.

As the name suggests, the woollen mill produces cloth made from wool. I just don't know if it's a problem with the wool or because of that technical link.

In short, Lanxian County can't produce clothes that can be worn on the body. Of course, it is not completely absent, and some of them are at the tribute level, which are extremely precious. It can only be circulated in the palace.

Most of the output is carpet-like, heavy, and somewhat rough cloth.

This is also the only industry that loses money among all the industries in Shaofu.

Because these cloths are expensive and bad, they cannot be worn on the body. Zhu Qizhen can only find a way to use these cloths in the army, not that Zhu Qizhen is not good to the soldiers, but in his mind, some tents, cloth for covering weapons,

It should work with this.

But some thick linen cloth is also okay, and it is much cheaper than these cloths, so in general, it is still a loss.

It's just that today's Shaofu is at a loss.

After all, Liu Dingzhi's ability is not bad, at least any mining workshop, in the hands of Liu Dingzhi, can clearly tell whether it is a loss or a profit, it is not as good as being in the hands of the eunuch before, this is a question that no one can say.

After all, the eunuchs only care about what they can get money one by one, and they don't care whether the court loses or earns.

Otherwise, the cost of the court will not be higher and higher every year.

Zhu Qiyu asked curiously, "Brother Huang, what is this?" ”

Zhu Qizhen said with a smile: "The sharp weapon of the Death Thorn, the Divine Sword of Destroying Mongolia." He didn't look at Zhu Qiyu's incomprehensible expression, he secretly said in his heart: "Although the wool textile industry has not yet reached the scale I want, as long as it persists, the textile improvement day after day will always improve the quality or reduce the cost one day." ”

"The aftermath of such a destruction of the tile thorn has already been determined, just wait to kill it first, and destroy the tile thorn."

Although the woolen cloth in Lanxian County is still not good, if it is really cheap to a certain extent, even if it is worn and tied all over, there will be a large number of poor people who will use it.

After all, the Ming Dynasty is not a society with great material wealth.

These two technological revolutions, combined with the construction of a large number of tracks, were enough for the Ming to establish effective rule over the grasslands.

Zhu Qizhen has worked hard for decades, the army is ready, although the money is lacking, it is not impossible to squeeze out, and all other conditions are ripe, or almost mature.

Fighting Mongolia or tile thorns is just the beginning, if the grassland is included in the territory of the Ming Dynasty, it is where Zhu Qizhen has always been in his heart.

Everything is ready, just wait for a war.

Where did the Great War start first?

Zhu Qizhen vaguely judged in his heart, probably after the destruction of North Korea, if everything goes well, it will be next year.

Twenty years of orthodoxy has been an extraordinary year.

At this moment, on the grassland, I didn't know that Zhu Qizhen's twenty-year master plan had reached the final stage of completion. And I also feel that the three generations of the Rose family, from Mahamu, Dehuan, to him, the efforts of the three generations are also coming to an end.

That is to complete the transformation of the Tile Thorn tribe to the Tile Thorn Empire.

Now the first to defeat the Son Jin family has been completely defeated, but there is one last hidden worry, which he has to solve. That's the internal problem of the Tile Spur.

Generally regard the tile spur as a whole, which is also not right.

The Varspurs are a united body around the Ross, but they are also a tribal confederation. The Ross family is nothing more than the leader of the tribal alliance of the Vasses, or the leader of the alliance.